experts warned of even higher increases in the new year as vat rises in january from 17.5 per cent to 20 per cent and retailers shield consumers from price rises.
专家警告说,随着增值税在一月从17.5%上调至20%以及零售商对消费者价格上的保护,新的一年中更快的增长可能会到来。
but if you can use a word processor and web browser, you already have 90 per cent of the skills you need.
但是如果你能使用一个字处理程序或网页浏览器,你就已经拥有了你所需的技能的90%。
copper prices, for example, have fallen 23 per cent in the past two months, partly on fears over chinese consumption of the metal, which has fallen by more than half this year.
举例来说,过去两个月铜价已经下跌了23%,这一定程度上是因为人们担心中国对该种金属的消费——今年中国的铜消费已下降逾一半。
we need to act with urgency and resolve to ensure that no-one dies from malaria for lack of a 5 dollar bed net, 1 dollar antimalarial drug and a 50 cent diagnostic test.
我们需要下定决心,立即采取行动确保没有人会因为缺了一顶5美元的蚊帐,一份1美元的抗疟药和一个50美分的诊断检测包而死亡。
i am not afraid. i have earned every cent that i have.
我并不害怕,我的每一分钱都是自己赚来的。
if all you mean is that you gave her 30 per cent equity in exchange for a deposit, stick to the deal.
如果你的意思只是:你给她30%的房产,用以交换一部分首付款,那就继续这笔交易吧。
when researchers put the following three problems to 3400 students in the us, only 17 per cent got all three right.
研究人员曾让3400名美国学生回答了下面这三个问题,仅有17%的人答对了全部三道题。
health policy experts suggest curbing the consumption of sugared drinks through an excise tax of one cent per ounce of beverage, which would be expected to decrease consumption by 10 per cent.
健康政策专家建议通过对饮料征收每盎司1美分的消费税来控制含糖软饮料的消耗。 他们希望这一措施可以将软饮料的消耗量降低10%。
please break this into all fifty cent coins.
请把这个换成五十分的硬币。
i, jonathan turner, give every cent i have to my three children.
我——乔纳森·特纳,将我所有的财产留给我的孩子们。
under this ban no more than two per cent of the fats and oils in any food product can contain trans fats.
这条禁令规定在任何食品中只有不超过百分之二的脂肪和油可以含有反式脂肪。
and when you「re trading that frequently, if you」re only making a cent each time, it adds up quickly.
当你在这种频率下交易,如果每一次只交易一分钱,它加起来也能增长很快。
the drill - for two weeks, write down every cent you spend—on every pack of gum, newspaper, and impulse buy.
练习方法-记下你花的每一分钱,记下每一块口香糖,每一份报纸,每一次沖动购买的花费。
about 75 per cent said they thought about intimacy at least once a day, but only one in three people got their daily dose of it.
约75%的调查对象称,他们每天至少会想一次与爱人亲热的事,但仅有三分之一的人每天会亲热一下。
he says it is too early to expect financial returns on the investments, pointing out that only about three per cent of us patents are ever licensed.
他说,现在就指望这些(专利申请的)投资产生经济回报为时过早,因为只有百分之三的美国专利最后售出了使用权。
the index is up almost 30 per cent this year.
今年迄今为止该指数已累计上涨近30%。
if they came to mount carmel mr campbell would tell them, straight, that the country was a disaster with no diesel or electricity, tea or sugar; so he wasn’t paying a cent to them.
但是如果到卡梅尔山去要钱,坎贝尔先生会毫不留情告诉他们,这个国家简直就是一场灾难,没有柴油,没有电,没有茶,也没有糖;所以他一毛钱都不会给。
even among those polled in the us, some 48 per cent agreed.
即使在美国,也有大约48%的受访者同意上述说法。